Genealogische gegevens uit Noord-Oost Overijssel » David van Gelder (1900-1944)

Day of marriage August 12, 1924

• The temperature on August 12, 1924 was between 11.8 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
  • April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

Day of death March 31, 1944

• The temperature on March 31, 1944 was between -3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 22 » World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
  • February 15 » World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
  • March 6 » World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
  • April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
  • August 19 » World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
  • September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1939 » Ioannis Tsangaridis, Greek general (b. 1887)
• 1944 » Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Frank Findlay, New Zealand banker and politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1950 » Robert Natus, Estonian architect (b. 1890)
• 1952 » Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1877)